VENUES
SOPHIE NYS, If Nature Didn’t, Warner’s Will, 2012. Stockings, coconuts, 48 x 21 x 11 cm. Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels.
AWT FOCUS
Taro Masushio and Sophie Nys
Curated by Olivier Mignon
XYZ Collective
Belgian curator Olivier Mignon, the director of Keijiban in Kanazawa, juxtaposes works by two artists at XYZ collective. New York–based photographer Taro Masushio addresses themes of queer embodiment and the politics of the gaze, while Brussels-based sculptor Sophie Nys investigates the relationship between language and objects.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
XYZ Collective
XYZ collective / The Steak House Dos Koi is an artist-run gallery that was established in 2011 and moved to its current location in Tokyo’s Sugamo district in 2016. The gallery organizes exhibitions both in Japan and abroad. It has participated in NADA Miami since 2013 and has also participated in fairs such as Paris Internationale and June in Basel. Recent shows include solo exhibitions by Yuka Hasegawa (2021) and Maki Katayama (2021) and the group exhibition “Veit Laurent Kurz Curation” (2021).
